The laws which were passed on January 16th showed that the faction of the ruling class
which now controls the government is ready to install a reactionary bourgeois dictatorship
on the model of the Latin American regimes of the 1970s. The ?dictatorship laws?
criminalize any protest and limit the freedom of speech; also, they establish
responsibility for ?extremism?. Parliamentary mouthpieces of the class dictatorship of
corrupted bureaucracy and monopolist bourgeoisie are the Party of Regions and the so
called ?Communist? Party of Ukraine which has long ago become a political force serving
interests of capital. ---- The Ukrainian repressive system leans on the police apparatus
and street gangs of pro-government stormtroopers. Sometimes such paramilitary structures
are commanded by retired police officers.
Death squads are also in action. According to confirmed information, two people were
kidnapped from a hospital and tortured. One of them died in a forest. Special forces use
pinpoint firing against protesters, and not only from traumatic guns. One of the killed,
according to a photo of his body, was shot in his heart. According to all indications he
was a victim of a sniper. In the morning of January 23 the number of the killed
constituted from 5 to 7 persons. And we don?t know the real scale of violence.
The ideology of the ruling regime is a mixture of Putin-style nationalism, conspiracy
theories and conviction in their right, as elite, to rule over stupid populace. Groups of
support to Berkut (the main riot police force) in social networks are full of anti-Semitic
articles which claim that the opposition leaders are Jews and want to vitiate the people
by legalizing same-sex marriages. This hardly differs from the rhetoric of Ukrainian right
radicals.
Over the last days not only the far right confront the government, but also people of more
moderate views. And they constitute the majority of the protesters. Many of them are
indifferent to nationalism or negatively predisposed to it. Many of them don?t support
integration into the EU. People go into the streets to protest against police violence.
And a significant part of them is unenthusiastic or even skeptical about the clashes in
the Grushevskogo street. Often one can hear that right radicals are a ?Trojan horse? of
Yanukovych and special services, designed to discredit the protest. Certainly there would
be many more Kievites participating in the protests if there was a way to take those
idiots useful to the government out of the streets. Top of their demands is to give them
jobs in the Security Service of Ukraine after the ?victorious revolution?.
Anarchists ought to participate in demonstrations and pickets which are dedicated to
defense of the rights and freedoms usurped by the laws of January 16th. It makes sense to
take action at one?s workplace or neighborhood and to help sabotage the dictatorship?s
decisions. There?s not much sense in participating in the activities in Grushevskogo
street, which were meaningless from the very beginning. These activities only give the
government pretty picture for television and enable it to identify radical elements by
locating mobile phones and videotaping.
In the case of the opposition?s victory, as well as in the case of the government?s
victory we?ll have to wage long and hard war against any of those regimes. This should be
understood. We need to gather forces in order to start dictating our own libertarian and
proletarian agenda in Ukrainian politics.
No gods, no masters! No nations, no borders!
Autonomous Workers? Union, Kiev local
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